Well, recently in a meeting i suggested my organization of creating a centralized storage server, as in present scenario, all the users are having their data on the machines on which they're working, and taking backup from them is nothing less than a pain. Well i was asked to work on this, n suggest them the cost of the overall setup. Regarding hardware i don't think so that's gonna be a prb. But for the OS part, i'm thinking of installing opensolaris, and i'm working on it for the past one week to get comfortable with it. well there are few hurdles.
1. Wat i thought of was like, the users would be able to access shared folders by like accessing the machine. for e.g. like there are two users Jerry and Tom, so when Jerry accesses it, he'll provide a usersname and password, and then be able to store or access his files, so it is like setting passwords on folders. And Tom cannot access unless he knows the password of Jerry. Is this thing possible? I've worked on other alternatives like freenas, openfiler, there is nothing like this on them. Well, all the users are working on windows XP. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
